CUBA: Spring Fever

In the somewhat banal white marble palace of the Pan-American Union in
Washington last week gathered diplomats from 21 republics of the
Western Hemisphere, to hear a somewhat banal Pan-American Day
message from their Good Neighbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Beaming
"with faith in the high destiny of the Americas," Good Neighbor Roosevelt
spoke a smooth public piece in the style to which all Americans
are now accustomed. When he had finished he unexpectedly dismissed
the press, asked that the microphones before him be deadened, and in a
suspenseful silence gave a confidential...